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These items are available at the St. Augustine Campus Library. Item descriptions are provided by our vendors when available (Ingram for books, DVA for films). Call numbers are for the St. Augustine Campus Library collection.

= BOOK | = DVD or CD | = VHS | = CASSETTE

Child Art Therapy - "Since 1978, Judith Aron Rubin's Child Art Therapy has become the classic text for conducting art therapy with children. Twenty-five years later, the book still stands as the reference for mental health professionals who incorporate art into their practice. Now, with the publication of this fully updated and revised Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, which includes a DVD that illustrates art therapy techniques in actual therapy settings, this pioneering guide is available to train, inform, and inspire a new generation of art therapists and those seeking to introduce art therapy into their clinical practice.

The text illustrates how to: Set the conditions for creative growth, assess progress, and set goals for therapy Use art in individual, group, and family situations, including parent-child pairings, mothers' groups, and adolescent groups Work with healthy children and those with disabilities Guide parents through art and play Talk about art work and encourage art production Decode nonverbal messages contained in art and the art-making process Use scribbles, drawings, stories, poems, masks, and other methods to facilitate expression Understand why and how art therapy works

Along with the useful techniques and activities described, numerous case studies taken from Rubin's years of practice add a vital dimension to the text, exploring how art therapy works in the real world of children's experience. Original artwork from clients and the author illuminate the material throughout. Written by an internationally recognized art therapist, Child Art Therapy, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition is a comprehensive guide for learning about, practicing, and refining child art therapy."

Call number: RJ505.A7 R8 2005

Call number: RJ505.A7 R8 2005 DVD

Bridal Bargains: Secrets to Throwing a Fantastic Wedding on a Realistic Budget - "Bridal Bargains is the best-selling book on weddings in the United States, showing thousands of brides, grooms, and beleaguered families how to have an affordable wedding. In this newly expanded edition, readers will find current, comprehensive information on keeping this important event reasonably priced and fun. Using a simple, informative list format, the book includes such topics as how to save on bridal gowns and wedding pictures; three costly myths about wedding catering plus seven delicious trends in affordable wedding cakes; twelve creative ways to save money on flowers; how to negotiate the best deal on a ceremony and reception site; who offers the best buys on elegant invitations; plus many money-saving tips on wedding videos, entertainment, and party favors. Detachable checklists with questions for prospective vendors help keep things organized. This new edition includes 101 new tips to personalize a wedding, how to get married abroad, reviews of new bride couture, and more."

Call number: HQ745 .F53 2005

No More Secrets for Me: Sexual Abuse Is a Secret No Child Should Have to Keep - "Fully endorsed by the Masters and Johnson Institute, "No More Secrets for Me is an invaluable resource to help parents talk with their children about the sensitive subject of sexual abuse. This updated edition, with a new foreword and chapter introductions, will help young people recognize the warning signs of abuse. The book will also reassure parents that their children will be prepared to avoid this all-too-real-danger."

Call number: PZ7.W1134 No 2002

Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo - "This is a shocking and gripping story of an American GI's six months at the Guantanamo Bay detainee camp where he served as an Arabic translator and took part in the interrogations of the Muslim prisoners."

Call number: HV6432 .S22 2005

Nanofuture: What's Next for Nanotechnology - "Flying cars, space travel for everyone, the elimination of poverty and hunger, and powerful new tools to combat disease, and even aging. These are some of the amazing predicted developments of nanotechnology, the coming science of designing and building machines at the molecular and atomic levels. Will this new scientific revolution be for better or worse? Some commentators have described utopias; others have prophesied disaster. Find out the likely reality from an expert, Dr. J. Storrs Hall, in this absorbing insider's guide to the near future. Dr. Hall--a leading researcher on the frontiers of nanotechnology who has designed for NASA--describes nanotechnology in a very accessible way, so that anyone can understand what it's about, what it could do, and what it can't do. He puts it into historical context, explaining how previous technological developments have affected us, how nanotechnology fits into the historical trends for technologies ranging from motors to medicine, and how the continuation of these trends, with nanotechnology as a strong determining factor, will have a profound impact on the future. In addition to describing his famous invention utility fog, Hall explains how nanotechnology will make possible many of the science fiction dreams of the past. But what hurdles, technological, political, or social, stand in the way? What dangers will this powerful new technology pose? How will it impact the environment? The true dangers are not what you may think, and are far different from the fears of today's alarmists. In a straightforward, balanced manner, Dr. Hall analyzes the benefits as well as the potential risks. Together with its sister science of biotechnology, nanotechnology has the potential to alter the very human race, change who we are. Can this possibly be good? No one knows for sure, but the basis for informed thought can be found in these exciting, stimulating pages, which will open the doors of the future to you."

Call number: T174.7 .H35 2005

Lie Detectors: A Social History - "The polygraph, most commonly known as the lie detector, was created and refined by academics in university settings with support from a few early police agencies. This work is a history of the machine, from the experimental work of the late 1800s that led directly to its creation, through the present. It covers early lie detectors and their inventors from the 1860s to the early 1920s, their use by the police and other law enforcement agencies in the 1930s and their use in Cold War America in the 1940s and 1950s. It then discusses the government's use of the polygraph in the 1960s, the PSE, a new take on the old polygraph, and private businesses' reliance on the polygraph in the 1970s and the government's increasing reluctance to use it in the 1980s. A chapter on new ideas and uses for the polygraph in the 1990s and after concludes the book."

Call number: HV8078 .S44 2004

Legalizing Marijuana: Drug Policy Reform and Prohibition Politics - "This book is a frontal assault on the federal government's almost century-long campaign against marijuana in all its forms--cultivation, growing, selling, and recreational and medicinal use. Beginning with the anti-pot campaign of the first unofficial drug czar, Harry Anslinger, in the 1930s and continuing with only minor differences in emphasis through the recent Reagan, Clinton, and two Bush administrations, federal efforts to stamp out every form of marijuana use involve ignoring the independent reports of numerous federal commissions; supporting provably false claims about marijuana's effects; acquiescing to conservative law enforcement and religious groups' condemnatory agendas; generating a climate of fear in the electorate in order to cultivate messianic images for politicians; and ultimately governing in a way that does a disservice to all involved."

Call number: HV5822.M3 G47 2004

A New Season: Using Title IX to Reform College Sports - "This book demonstrates how colleges might retain threatened varsity programs and expand sports opportunities for women students if they replaced the current commercial model with one that emphasizes student participation. This would benefit the college students who play varsity sports, instead of benefiting the coaches, athletic directors, or over-generous boosters who dominate many programs."

Call number: GV709.18 .U6 P67 2003

Keeping Kids Safe: A Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Manual - "this trusted resource for teachers, parents, and counselors helps to arm children with safety skills and guides adults in teaching kids prevention strategies. Includes age-appropriate curricula and word-for-word scripts."

Call number: HV6570.2 .T63 2002

Mysteries of Terra Firma: The Age and Evolution of the Earth - "In "Mysteries of Terra Firma," James Lawrence Powell tells an engrossing three-part tale of how we came to understand the ground on which we walk, and how that ground holds the key to the greatest secrets of deep space and time. Naming his profound stories Time, Drift, and Chance, he tells of the three twentieth-century revolutions in thought that created the amazing science of Earth -- and of all planets to the edge of the universe.

The riddle that drove the first revolution is obvious and yet in 1904 remained impenetrable: how old is Earth? An encounter between the imperious Lord Kelvin and a New Zealand farm-boy-turned-physicist, Ernest Rutherford, set the stage for the solution and launched a golden century of geology. As a result, scientists learned that if the 4.5 billion years of geologic time were compressed into a single twenty-four-hour period, Homo sapiens would have arrived only in the last second. The geological Revolution of Time reveals how long the ground on which we walk has existed, and how briefly we have trod that ground.

In the early twentieth century, German meteorologist and polar explorer Alfred Wegener proposed a counterintuitive, heretical theory: that terra firma is not so firm; instead of being fixed in place, continents drift. In 1926, petroleum geologists convened in New York City to discuss Wegener's radical idea, where it was met with outrage and skepticism: "If we are to believe Wegener's hypothesis we must forget everything which has been learned in the last seventy years and start all over again," one attendee said. Forty years later, a new generation did exactly that. The Revolution of Drift, the second part of Powell's narrative, showedus how the ground on which we walk moves.

Throughout geologic time, meteorites have incessantly bombarded everything in the solar system. Far from serene and predictable, the planets are ruled by random violence on an unimaginable scale. Once a mountain-sized meteorite flew through space, struckthe Earth, killed the dinosaurs and two-thirds of all species, and spared the small hamster-sized creature that happened to be our ancestor. The chance of that happening again is essentially zero. So, the final revolution in Powell's history of a golden century of geology is the Revolution of Chance. Simply put, this revolution in thought has transformed our understanding of how lucky we really are.

If we can learn so much from considering no more than the rocks beneath our feet, what will we learn when we begin walking on other planets? "Mysteries of Terra Firma" is both charming in its storytelling and staggering in its implications. Discovering the ground on which we stand is a fascinating journey into our past -- and our future."

Call number: QE508 .P68 2001

Delights & Shadows - "Ted Kooser is a master of metaphor, a poet who deftly connects disparate elements of the world and communicates with absolute precision. Critics call him a "haiku-like imagist" and his poems have been compared to Chekov's short stories. In "Delights and Shadows," Kooser draws inspiration from the overlooked details of daily life. Quotidian objects like a pegboard, creamed corn and a forgotten salesman's trophy help reveal the remarkable in what before was a merely ordinary world.

"Kooser documents the dignities, habits and small griefs of daily life, our hunger for connection, our struggle to find balance."-"Poetry"

Ted Kooser is the author of eight collections of poems and a prose memoir. He lives on a small farm in rural Nebraska."

Call number: PS3561.O6 D45 2004

Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils - "One of the greatest mysteries in reconstructing the history of life on Earth has been the apparent absence of fossils dating back more than 550 million years. We have long known that fossils of sophisticated marine life-forms existed at the dawn of the Cambrian Period, but until recently scientists had found no traces of Precambrian fossils. The quest to find such traces began in earnest in the mid-1960s and culminated in one dramatic moment in 1993 when William Schopf identified fossilized microorganisms three and a half "billion" years old. This startling find opened up a vast period of time--some eighty-five percent of Earth's history--to new research and new ideas about life's beginnings. In this book, William Schopf, a pioneer of modern paleobiology, tells for the first time the exciting and fascinating story of the origins and earliest evolution of life and how that story has been unearthed.

Gracefully blending his personal story of discovery with the basics needed to understand the astonishing science he describes, Schopf has produced an introduction to paleobiology for the interested reader as well as a primer for beginning students in the field. He considers such questions as how did primitive bacteria, pond scum, evolve into the complex life-forms found at the beginning of the Cambrian Period? How do scientists identify ancient microbes and what do these tiny creatures tell us about the environment of the early Earth? (And, in a related chapter, Schopf discusses his role in the controversy that swirls around recent claims of fossils in the famed meteorite from Mars.) Like all great teachers, Schopf teaches the non-specialist enough about his subject along the way that wecan easily follow his descriptions of the geology, biology, and chemistry behind these discoveries. Anyone interested in the intriguing questions of the origins of life on Earth and how those origins have been discovered will find this story the best place to start."

Call number: QH325 .S384 1999

Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture - "To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In "Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western thinkers who not only understood its multifaceted character but who also explored its creative potential.
Hughes draws on an enormous range of literature, art, and architecture to explore what technology has brought to society and culture, and to explain how we might begin to develop an "ecotechnology" that works with, not against, ecological systems. From the "Creator" model of development of the sixteenth century to the "big science" of the 1940s and 1950s to the architecture of Frank Gehry, Hughes nimbly charts the myriad ways that technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different eras and the promises and problems it has offered. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, optimistically hoped that technology could be combined with nature to create an Edenic environment; Lewis Mumford, two centuries later, warned of the increasing mechanization of American life.
Such divergent views, Hughes shows, have existed side by side, demonstrating the fundamental idea that "in its variety, technology is full of contradictions, laden with human folly, saved by occasional benign deeds, and rich with unintended consequences." In "Human-Built World, he offers the highly engaging history of these contradictions, follies, and consequences, a history that resurrects technology, rightfully, as more than gadgetry; it is in fact no less than an embodiment of human values."

Call number: T14.5 .H84 2004

Baby Signs: How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk - "The bestselling parenting guide featured on "Oprah" and "Dateline" is revised and updated with new signs

For every parent or caregiver who has struggled unsuccessfully to decode baby grunts and grabs, resulting in tearful frustration for both adult andchild, there is Baby Signs. Based on 20 years of research, this one-of-a-kind classic shows you how to encourage your baby's use of nonverbal gestures to enhance communication. Simple hand movements signifyobjects, events, and needs, so your infant can enjoy interactions with youthat otherwise would have been impossible until they could talk. New features of this revised edition include helpful tips on incorporating Baby Signs into the day care setting and more than 50 additional illustrated Baby Signs."

Call number: BF723.C57 A27 2002

 

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom - "Every schoolchild knows of Harriet Tubman's heroic escape and resistance to slavery. But few readers are aware that Tubman went on to be a scout, a spy, and a nurse for the Union Army, because there has never before been a serious biography for an adult audience of this important woman. This is that long overdue historical work, written by an acclaimed historian of the antebellum era and the Civil War. Illiterate but deeply religious, Tubman left her family in her early 20s to escape to Philadelphia, then a hotbed of abolitionism. There she became the first and only woman, fugitive slave, and black to work as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. So successful was she in spiriting away slaves that the state of Maryland put a $40,000 bounty on her head. Within a year of starting her work, fellow slaves and Northerners began referring to Tubman as "Moses" because of how many people she had freed. With impeccable scholarship that draws on newly available sources and research into the daily lives of slaves, HARRIET TUBMAN is an enduring work on one of the most important figures in American history."

Call number: E444.T82 C57 2004

Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs - "What killed the dinosaurs? For more than a century, this question has been one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science. But, in 1980, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez and his son, Walter, proposed a radical answer: 65 million years ago an asteroid or comet as big as Mt. Everest slammed into the earth, raising a dust cloud vast enough to cause mass extinction. A revolutionary idea that challenged the ice-age extinction theory, the asteroid-impact theory was scorned and derided by the science community. But after years of bitter debate and intense research, an astonishing discovery was made -- an immense impact crater in the Yucatan Peninsula that was identified as Ground Zero. The Alvarezes had their proof.

A dramatic scientific detective story, Night Comes to the Cretaceous is a brilliant example of science at work -- in the trenches, complete With passionate struggles and occasional victories."

Call number: QE506 .P734 1999

The New Music Therapist's Handbook - "This completely updated and revised edition reflects the latest developments in the field of music therapy. Includes an introduction to the profession, guidelines for setting up a practice, new clinical applications, and helpful case studies - a must for students and professionals alike."

Call number: ML3920 .H3 1999

The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of the Human Mind - "Most of us know it well--the almost physical sensation that we are the object of someone's attention. Is the feeling all in our heads? What about related phenomena, such as telepathy and premonitions? Are they merely subjective beliefs? In The Sense of Being Stared At, renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake explores the intricacies of the mind and discovers that our perceptive abilities are stronger than most of us could have imagined.
Sheldrake argues persuasively in this compelling book that such phenomena are, in fact, real. He rejects the label of "paranormal" and shows how these psychic occurrences are in fact a normal part of human nature. Combining the tradition of pragmatic experimentation with a refusal to accept the conventional answers to explain such phenomena, Sheldrake pioneers an intriguing new inquiry into the mysteries of our deepest nature. Rigorously researched yet completely accessible, this groundbreaking book provides a refreshing new way of thinking about ourselves and our relationships with other people, animals, and the world around us."

Call number: BF1321 .S48 2003

Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation - "UPDATED TO INCLUDE PAUL McCARTNEY'S KNIGHTING AND THE DEATHS OF JOHN LENNON AND GEORGE HARRISON

Philip Norman's biography of the Beatles is the definitive work on the world's most influential band -- a beautifully written account of their lives, their music, and their times. Now brought completely up to date, this epic tale charts the rise of four scruffy Liverpool lads from their wild, often comical early days to the astonishing heights of Beatlemania, from the chaos of Apple and the collapse of hippy idealism to the band's acrimonious split. It also describes their struggle to escape the smothering Beatles' legacy and the tragic deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison. Witty, insightful, and moving, "Shout!" is essential reading not just for Beatles fans but for anyone with an interest in pop music."

Call number: ML421.B4 N65 2005

Talking about Death - "Even in this candidly confessional age, we've been conditioned to avoid discussions of death. Our youth-worshipping culture does everything to deny death, which is why, when the end nears, most of us are inadequately prepared to deal with it.
And the cost of that is great: many are haunted by memories of how inappropriately or painfully or uncomfortably their parents and grandparents died. Many of us avoid even considering the options, in all their complexity, that we will most likely face one day, given our new longevity and the profound advances in medicine.
With its wise and very compelling argument that all of us, at any age, can and should face death before it faces us, Talking About Death addresses the cultural, personal, medical, and legal concerns that are necessary for us--as individuals and as a society--to prepare for a good death, a death where the dying are in control and not, as is too often the case, caught in a downward spiral of medical intervention and misunderstood intentions.
Virginia Morris skillfully weaves together personal stories and practical matters, scientific fact and spiritual sensitivity into an important book about how we can achieve a greater sense of peace in dying, and rediscover the art of living."

Call number: BF789.D4 M65 2004

The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith - "The Transformation of American Religion represents the first systematic effort in more than fifty years to bring together a wide body of literature about worship, fellowship, doctrine, tradition, identity, and sin to examine how Americans actually live their faith. Emphasizing personal stories, Wolfe takes readers to religious services across the nation-an Episcopal congregation in Massachusetts, a Catholic Mass in a suburb of Detroit, an Orthodox Jewish temple in Boston-to show that the stereotype of religion as a fire-and-brimstone affair is obsolete. Gone is the language of sin and damnation, and forgotten are the clear delineations between denominations; they have been replaced with a friendly God and a trend towards sampling new creeds and doctrines. Overall, Wolfe reveals American religion as less radical, less contentious, and less dangerous than it is generally perceived to be.
"Offering neither a cynical attack on religion nor a starry-eyed celebration of its triumphs, Wolfe presents a commendably balanced view, honoring the role religion has played inour nation's past while helping us see more clearly the present state of religious affairs." - Los Angeles Times"

Call number: BL2525 .W65 2005

A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to The Great Migration - " This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people--an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more expansive ways about the nature and boundaries of politics and political practice.

Emphasizing the importance of kinship, labor, and networks of communication, "A Nation under Our Feet explores the political relations and sensibilities that developed under slavery and shows how they set the stage for grassroots mobilization. Hahn introduces us to local leaders, and shows how political communities were built, defended, and rebuilt. He also identifies the quest for self-governance as an essential goal of black politics across the rural South, from contests for local power during Reconstruction, to emigrationism, biracial electoral alliances, social separatism, and, eventually, migration.

Hahn suggests that Garveyism and other popular forms of black nationalism absorbed and elaborated these earlier struggles, thus linking the first generation of migrants to the urban North with those who remained in the South. He offers a new framework--looking out from slavery--to understand twentieth-century forms of black political consciousness as well as emerging battles for civil rights. It is a powerful story, told here for the first time, and one that presents both an inspiring and a troubling perspective on American democracy."

Call number: E185.2 .H15 2003

Florida's Colonial Architectural Heritage - "This first volume in the eight-part Florida Architectural Heritage Series tells the story of Florida's buildings -- their planning, construction, and the lives of those who built them -- from 1565 to 1821, when the colony was ruled by Spain and England. With 200 photos, 9 maps."

Call number: NA730.F6 G67 2002

Gulag: A History - "The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century."

Call number: HV 8964.S65 A67 2004

Surviving Manic Depression: A Manual of Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families, and Providers - "Surviving Manic Depression is the most comprehensive, up-to-date book on the disorder that affects more than two million people in the United States alone. Based on the latest research, it provides detailed coverage of every aspect of the disorder. All aspects of the disease are addressed: symptoms, with many direct descriptions from patients themselves, risk factors, onset and cause, medications (including drugs still in the testing stage), causes, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation and how the disease affects children and adolescents. Here too are discussions of special problems related to manic-depressive disorder, including alcohol and drug abuse, violent behavior, medication noncompliance, suicide, sex, AIDS, and confidentiality. Surviving Manic Depression also includes special features such as a listing of selected websites, videotapes, and other resources."

Call number: RC516 .T67 2005

The Moroccan Collection: Traditional Flavors of Northern Africa - "Hearty and spicy or heady and fragrant, Moroccan food exudes exotic aromas and full piquant flavors. The vitality of Moroccan culture underscores the sensual combination of ingredients in these simple, authentic recipes such as Chicken Tagine with Almonds and Tuna in Red Pepper and Olive Sauce, along with rice and couscous recipes and grilled meats and vegetables."

Call number: TX725.M8 W35

Flagler's St. Augustine Hotels: The Ponce de Leon, the Alcazar, and the Casa Monica - "Near the end of the nineteenth century Standard Oil millionaire Henry Morrison Flagler ventured to St. Augustine, Florida, America's Oldest City, and transformed it into an exotic travel destination for the social elite. He raised magnificent, fanciful Spanish Renaissance hotel palaces on what had been orange grove and salt marsh. Then he connected his creation with the outside world by building a modern railroad system. Flagler's hotels stand as monuments to innovation in architecture and engineering. They were the first large buildings in the United States constructed of poured concrete, and they pioneered use of novel amenities like electric lights, steam heat, and elevators. They are still a vital part of modern St. Augustine. The Ponce de Leon, Flagler's preeminent hotel, now houses Flagler College; the Alcazar now holds the City Hall and the Lightner Museum. Only the Casa Monica (previously called the Cordova) is presently a hotel."

Call number: TX909 .G73 2004

Buzzed: The Straight Facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy (2ND ed.) - "THE GROUNDBREAKING ORIGINAL EDITION of Buzzed sold over 60,000 copies--and now the authors have revised and updated it to include the most recent discoveries about drugs. This scientifically accurate and easy-to-read handbook gives the most balanced, objective information available on the most often used and abused drugs, from alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine to heroin, ecstasy, and Special K. In both quick-reference summaries and in-depth analysis, it reports on how these drugs enter the body, how they manipulate the brain, their short-term and long-term effects, the kinds of "high" they produce, and the circumstances in which they can be deadly. Neither a "just say no" treatise nor a "how-to" manual, Buzzed is based on the conviction that people make healthier decisions when they "just say know"--when they understand in straightforward language how our complex brains really work and why even small doses of various substances can have such powerful (and sometimes life-threatening) effects."

Call number: RM316 .K84 2003

Prevention That Works!: A Guide for Developing School-Based Drug and Violence Prevention Programs - "There are a wide range of programs that claim to prevent or reduce drug use and violence on campus . . . but how good are they? And how effective is the program that's in place at your school?

Now even educators without evaluation experience or a statistical background can produce accurate and 'fearless' assessments with the help of this invaluable guidebook, including:

* Writing goals and objectives
* Reviewing and selecting programs
* Creating homegrown programs
* Creating self-report questionnaires and focus groups
* Calculating time and cost effectiveness
* Crunching numbers and organizing data
* Presenting the results

What's more, "Prevention That Works!""" contains over thirty separate resources that you can easily adapt and use in your own evaluations, including:

* Sample youth participant feedback sheets
* Sample adult participant feedback sheets
* Sample classroomobservation sheets
* Sample teacher implementation logs
* Sample en-route participant feedback sheets
* Sample teacher surveys of curriculum content for violence and substance abuse
* Data summary Logs
* Sample student risk surveys
* Sample parent consent forms

. . . as well as guidelines, glossaries, and advice on online funding. It's a comprehensive work and an essential part of your school safety program!"

Call number: LB3013.3 .K55 2001

Town & Country Toasts for Every Occasion - "Town & Country knows more than anyone about how to raise a glass in unforgettable style. Whether the event is formal or relaxed, whether there's a large group listening or a party of one, there's a saying appropriate to any occasion. Words to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays; salutes to luck and good health, loving acknowledgments to parents; sweet somethings for an intimate evening with someone special: all this and more appear in this astonishingly comprehensive collection of sophisticated quotations. Discover the how-tos of tasting and say, "cheers!" in many languages. Sidebars provide classic toasts, and tips for adding a personalized touch."

Call number: PN6341 .T625 2004

Against the Tide: The Battle for America's Beaches - "AMERICANS LOVE THEIR BEACHES. But when storms threaten, coastal construction -- homes and businesses -- takes precedence over the coastal environment. We rescue buildings, even if it means damaging the beach. As Cornelia Dean -- Science Editor of the New York Times -- explains, this pattern is leading to the rapid degradation of our coast. Against the Tide offers a passionate yet evenhanded account of the crisis facing America's beaches -- and what we must do to protect them.

Dean begins the story with the deadliest natural disaster ever in the United States, the devastating hurricane that killed 6,000 people in Galveston, Texas, in 1900. Residents constructed a wall to protect their city, not realizing how it would interfere with the natural movement of sand onto and off of their beach. In the end, the wall destroyed the very beach it was meant to protect. The citizens' well-meaning efforts to protect their valuable shorefront property ultimately cost them their beach and destroyed the town's booming resort business.

Against the Tide shows how similar tales have been retold in myriad ways all along the coast -- from Hurricane Andrew's assault on Florida and the Gulf Coast to the 1962 northeaster that ravaged one thousand miles of the Atlantic shore; from the beleaguered beaches of New Jersey and North Carolina's rapidly vanishing Outer Banks to the sand-starved coast of southern California. Dean provides dozens of examples of human attempts to tame the ocean -- as well as a wealth of descriptions of the sea's counterattack.

With harrowing accounts of natural disasters, lucid explanations of the physics of the beach and coastal ecology, reports of unwise construction, and aclear-eyed elucidation of public policy and conservation issues, this book illustrates in rich detail the conflicting interests, short-term responses, and long-term imperatives that will shape the future of the American coast.

Dean's eloquent book offers practical advice for preserving the stretches of pristine American coast that remain and salvaging stretches damaged by unwise development. Readers of Against the Tide will be drawn to see this nation's beaches in new ways."

Call number: GB460.A2 D4 1999

Alcoholism - "This updated and expanded new edition of a classic text on the world's number one drug problem is written in a clear and lively style by a world authority on alcoholism. The book is aimed at those who have alcohol problems and the people who share their lives. Throughout it examines the social, psychological, and medical aspects of alcohol problems."

Call number: RC565 .G638 2000

Addiction is a Choice - "Written for both lay and professional readers, this book offers new approaches to understanding addiction and the public policies necessary to successfully battle its detrimental effects on society. The author explains why current policies are ineffective and how they fail to cure the "problem." He argues that they actually encourage addiction by allowing people to feel blameless for the consequences of their choices."

Call number: HV4998 .S33 2000

Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II - "Colman expertly explores the enormous changes in the lives of women in their own homes and beyond. The strengths of this book are in the happy combination of abundant primary source material, a clear narrative style, and effective well-placed photographs. An important contribution."-- Kirkus Reviews"

Call number: HD6095 .C64 1995

Florida's Ghostly Legends and Haunted Folklore: Volume 2: North Florida and St. Augustine - "Discover the haunts of northern Florida in this series dedicated to uncovering the uncanny in the Sunshine State. Explore abandoned hospitals, ancient springs, and modern apartment complexes from Ocala to Jacksonville, from Lake City to Tallahassee. Encounter playful spirits and frightening specters and learn their tales of lost love, of lives cut tragically short and souls lingering through eternity. And unearth stories of darker phenomena that are yet to be explained. . . . Plus, take an exciting tour through ancient St. Augustine, America's oldest city?and perhaps its most haunted, too. Meet the ghosts of Spanish soldiers in a centuries-old fort; watch for the light of a widow on the roof of a quaint inn; and feel the presence of Henry Flagler (and his unhappy lovers) in the school that bears his name."

Call number: GR110.U6 J47 2005

Choosing a President: The Electoral College and Beyond - "In light of the Election 2000 controversy, this important new book challenges us to evaluate the fairness of the present U.S. Electoral College system and to consider six legitimate alternatives to it. A team of 37 top U.S. political experts tackle the fundamental questions that go to the heart of the current debate: How would Electoral College reform affect our federal system of government, national government institutions, and party system? What effect would reform have on the conduct of campaign organizations during elections, media coverage of campaigns, citizen participation, and the distribution of power? On the basis of these deliberations each political expert indicates the extent to which he or she supports or opposes the Electoral College system and the various alternatives to it.FEATURES Discussion of the creation, evolution, and current workings of the Electoral College gives readers the relevant background to evaluate its effectiveness today.Discussion of three reforms and three replacements of the Electoral College offers readers a solid account of current alternatives.Opinions from thirty seven contributors indicate levels of support for and criticism of the various reforms proposed."

Call number: JK528 .C44 2002

Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, 1871-2001 (Expanded) - "A comprehensive chronological guide to hurricanes, tropical storms, and near-misses to impact Florida since 1871, this expanded volume contains the widest possible range of statistics and information for the 181 tropical cyclones to reach Florida, 72 of them with hurricane force winds, 78 as tropical storms. Photos. Charts."

Call number: QC945 .W55 2002

Florida Lighthouses - "This volume for the first time covers the construction, history, and operations of all thirty of Florida's lighthouses and its one lightship in a most readable book... and outstanding self-guided tour guide. William Trotter's beautiful color painting of each light in its prime will soon make this book a collector's item."

Call number: VK1024.F6 M33

The Whole Foods Market Cookbook: A Guide to Natural Foods with 350 Recipes - "Here you'll find recipes for some of Whole Foods Market's most popular prepared dishes, appearing in print for the first time, in addition to other new favorites developed just for this book. In it, author Steve Petusevsky captures the passion for great-tasting natural foods as well as the straightforward, informative expertise and quality for which Whole Foods Market is known. You'll find answers to questions their shoppers ask the most, as well as hundreds of recipes for dishes ranging from soups, salads, pastas, and grains to roll-ups, burgers, finger foods, and one-pot meals.

Pantry stocking advice, food and wine pairings, preparation and storage tips, serving ideas, two comprehensive glossaries, and two-color woodblock illustrations lend the book the same pleasant, homey feeling you get from a visit to a Whole Foods Market store.

"Whole Foods Market" is the world's leading retailer of natural and organic foods. Founded in 1980 in Austin, Texas, the company now operates more than 130 stores in the United States under the names of Whole Foods Market, Bread & Circus "RM," Fresh Fields "RM", and Wellspring "RM." "

Call number: TX741 .P47 2002

Homosexuality & Civilization - "How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, Arab Spain, imperial China, and pre-Meiji Japan."

Call number: HQ76.25 .C76 2003

Spirit of the Harvest: North American Indian Cooking - "A carefully researched book, Spirit of the Harvest presents 150 authentic recipes from the Chippewa, Sioux, Comanche, Hopi, and other North American tribes. Navajo Peach Crisp, Ember Roasted Buffalo, and Iroquois Leaf Bread are among the unusual recipes offered. A portion of future royalties will be donated to the Museum of the American Indian. 50 full-color photographs. Full-color map."

Call number: TX715 .C8694

Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting - "From Neolithic painted petroglyphs, early paintings on silk, and landscapes by twelfth-century literati to the traditional handscrolls being produced today, Chinese painting has always had the power to enthrall. This magnificent book, written by a team of eminent international scholars, is the first to recount the history of Chinese painting over a span of some three thousand years. Drawing on museum collections, archives, and archaeological sites in China - including many resources never before available to Western scholars - as well as on collections in other countries, the authors present and analyze the very best examples of Chinese painting: more than 300 of them are reproduced here in color. Both accessible to the general reader and revelatory for the scholar, the book provides the most up-to-date and detailed history of China's pictorial art available today."

Call number: ND1040 .T48 2002

The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem - "Anyone who has been asked to read and understand a poem has probably wondered: What does this really mean? Have I understood this the way I was supposed to? Did I get it? As the least literal of all of forms of creative writing, poetry is for many readers also the most cryptic. Confronted by the mysteries of poetic interpretation, some people are intrigued, some become addicted, others are left frustrated. Shira Wolosky's accessibly written book, The Art of Poetry, provides a road map of the poetic form that will help its readers understand and enjoy poetry.

The Art of Poetry offers a step-by-step introduction to skills for reading poetry, working progressively from smaller units such as the individual word, the line, and the image to larger ones, such as verse forms, voice and gender, and metrical patterns. These basic skills of poetic analysis are presented in conjunction with a selection of poems that acquaints the reader with the great lyric poets in the English and American tradition. As a whole, The Art of Poetry presents a vision of poetry as dynamic, historical, and culturally engaged."

Call number: PE1505 .W55 2001

de Kooning: An American Master - "The first major biography of one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Ten years in the making, this exhaustively researched biography is a masterful portrait of the abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning, who arrived in New York as a stowaway from Rotterdam in 1926 and underwent a long struggle to become a painter. During the Depression he was a central figure in the bohemian world of downtown New York, surviving on WPA and commercial work and slowly gathering the support of established artists and critics. By 1948, with his successful first show, he took his place as the romantic and charismatic leader of the New York School just when American art was beginning to dominate the international scene. Dashingly handsome, de Kooning had a tumultuous marriage to Elaine Marie Fried, an acclaimed painter herself. Days were spent painting powerful abstractions and intense, disturbing pictures of women--and nights were spent living on the edge, drinking, womanizing, and talking at the Cedar Bar with such friends as Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and Frank O'Hara. In the 1960s, exhausted by the feverish art world, he retreated to Long Island, where he painted an extraordinary series of pastorals. In the 1980s, as he slowly declined into Alzheimer's, he created a late style of haunting, ethereal work. This is an authoritative and illuminating exploration of the art, life, and world of Willem de Kooning."

Call number: N6537.D43 S74 2004

All Work and No Play...: How Educational Reforms Are Harming Our Preschoolers - "Educators, neurologists, and psychologists explain how the high-stakes testing movement, and the race to wire classrooms, is actually stunting our children's intellects, blocking brain development and sometimes fueling mental illness. These experts, including a Pulitzer-Prize nominee, explain why play is not a luxury, but rather a necessity of learning."

Call number: LB1139.25 .A44 2003

Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise - "A professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona offers guidelines to achieve practical improvements to the environment while still allowing for human progress."

Call number: QH75 .R69 2003

Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America - " A critique of arguments in favor of the electoral college and a persuasive argument for direct election of the president
Americans currently choose their president through the electoral college, an extraordinarily complex mechanism that may elect a candidate who does not receive the most votes. In this provocative book, George Edwards III argues that--contrary to what supporters of the electoral college claim--there is no real justification for a system that might violate majority rule.
Drawing on systematic data, Edwards finds that the electoral college does not protect the interests of small states or racial minorities, does not provide presidents with effective coalitions for governing, and does little to protect the American polity from the alleged harms of direct election of the president. In fact, the electoral college distorts the presidential campaign so that candidates ignore most small states and some large ones and pay little attention to minorities, and it encourages third parties to run presidential candidates and discourages party competition in many states.
Edwards demonstrates effectively that direct election of the president without a runoff maximizes political equality and eliminates the distortions in the political system caused by the electoral college."

Call number: JK529 .E38 2004

Securing Democracy: Why We Have an Electoral College - "The distinguished contributors to this instructive volume -- including Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Michael Barone, and Walter Berns -- show why it would be folly to abolish the Electoral College by explaining not only its historical and cultural significance, but also its contemporary role in instilling a measure of stability and sanity to our electoral and party systems. This is the definitive volume for all those interested in the logic, and continuing importance of this unique American political institution."

Call number: JK1976 .S43 2001

Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage - "Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her children be better off if she had waited to have them and had married their father first? Why do so many poor American youth like Millie continue to have children before they can afford to take care of them? Over a span of five years, sociologists Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas talked in-depth with 162 low-income single moms like Millie to learn how they think about marriage and family. "Promises I Can Keep offers an intimate look at what marriage and motherhood mean to these women and provides the most extensive on-the-ground study to date of why they put children before marriage despite the daunting challenges they know lie ahead."

Call number: HQ759.45 .E35 2005

Peace Is the Way: Bringing War and Violence to an End - "Deepak Chopra's passionate new book, "Peace Is the Way, was inspired by a saying from Mahatma Gandhi: "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." In a world where every path to peace has proved futile, the one strategy that hasn't been tried is the way of peace itself. "We must not bring one war to an end, or thirty," Chopra tells us, "but the idea of war itself."
How can this be done?
By facing the truth that war is satisfying, and then substituting new satisfactions so that violence is no longer appealing. "War has become a habit. We reach for it the way a chain smoker reaches for a cigarette, promising to quit but somehow never kicking the habit." But Chopra tells us that peace has its own power, and our task now is to direct that power and multiply it one person at a time.
Behind the numbing headlines of violence running out of control there are unmistakable signs of a change--Chopra believes that a majority of people are ready to see an end to war. "Right now 23 million soldiers serve in armies around the world. Can't we find ten times that number who will dedicate themselves to peace? A hundred times?"
"Peace Is the Way challenges each of us to take the next leap in personal evolution. "You aren't asked to be a saint, or to give up any belief. You are only asked to stop reacting out of fear, to change your allegiance from violence to peace." In a practical seven-step program, Chopra shows the reader how to become a true peacemaker. "Violence may be innate in human nature, but so is its opposite: love. The next stage of humanity, the leap which we are poised to take, will be guided by the force of that love." This is more than a hope or an aspiration. It is a newway of being in the world, giving each individual the power to end war in our time."

Call number: BL65.P4 C445 2005

The Supreme Court - "Fifteen years after he became the first sitting Chief Justice to write a book about the United States Supreme Court, William H. Rehnquist has added new chapters and substantially revised his classic work.
The Supreme Court begins with the personal story of William Rehnquist's introduction to the Court as a law clerk to Justice Robert Jackson in 1952. From there it describes the Court's early evolution and function in our small, young democracy. Finally, it explains how the Court operates today.
Using biographical sketches of successive chief justices and associate justices and describing landmark cases, Rehnquist shows us how, as our country has grown and our politics have changed, the Court has moved in tandem with the executive and legislative branches to become the diverse and complex body we see in the present. The dramatic case of Marbury v. Madison, in which the Court first established its authority to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional, and the ill-starred Dred Scott decision, which held that Congress might not exclude slavery from a territory-a decision that touched a raw nerve in the national consciousness-are two of the disputes described in detail.
In his intriguing analysis of the growth of our railroad system-which quickly spanned the nation, causing small towns to mortgage their futures for the right to a rail line-Rehnquist shows how first states and cities, and then the national government, sought to regulate this new in-dustry, and how the constitutional questions raised by those regulations were resolved by the Supreme Court. He also treats in detail the relationship between the executive and judicial branches-and the sort of friction between themthat culminated in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Court-packing plan. Finally, the Chief Justice explains how the Supreme Court must necessarily limit itself to deciding cases that have a general public importance be-yond the concerns of the individual litigants.
"The Supreme Court takes us into the Court's conference room and the justices' chambers, providing an instructive view of the operation of the Court on a day-to-day basis. We see the role played by the law clerks, and how the 4,000-odd petitions for certiorari each year are sifted in order to produce the approximately 100 cases the Court hears and decides on their merits. With grace and wit, Rehnquist describes both the least and the most effective methods of oral argument, what happens at the conferences of the justices, how decisions are reached, and how the majority and minority opinions are assigned and circulated.
This is a unique and valuable book, lucid, informative, and a delight to read. It stands as an important work on the operation and history of our highest Court."

Call number: KF8742 .R47 2001

The Africa Cookbook - " In "The Africa Cookbook," culinary historian and cookbook author Jessica B. Harris takes you on a tour of the Motherland, exploring the extraordinary diversity of the cuisines of the continent.

"The Africa Cookbook" features more than 200 traditional and contemporary recipes collected from home kitchens across Africa, including the familiar couscous of Morocco, the savory stews of the eastern grasslands, and the curries and chutneys of the Swahili coasts. From the sophisticated cuisine of Senegal to the creolized food of Mauritius and the Seychelles to the Afrikaner barbecues of South Africa, Harris presents the food of the continent and paints unforgettable portraits of the people who shared their culinary heritage with her. Illustrated with archival postcards from the author's collection, "The Africa Cookbook" celebrates countries whose contributions to the way we eat today have been too long ignored. Now home cooks can sample Potatoes with Mint Leaves and Garlic from Algeria or Senegal's classic Theibou Dienn. Spicy fried oysters with peanut sauce from Togo wakes up the palate, while Mango Cream from Cameroon cools the fire. Carrot Sambal from South Africa makes a piquant side dish, while Kedjenou (chicken stewed with tomato, onions, chile, garlic, and ginger) from C&3244; te d'Ivoire makes an intriguing main course.

A special section of menus using recipes from the book complete with suggestions for appropriate decor and music, makes it easy to plan a variety of African feasts. Harris also includes a glossary of ingredients and utensils, a selection of mail-order sources, and a list of more good reading on African foods."

Call number: TX725.A1 H284

Mario Batali Simple Italian Food: Recipes from My Two Villages - "Perfectly pristine ingredients, combined sensibly and cooked properly, are the unmistakable hallmarks of the best Italian food. Chef Mario Batali, known to fans far and wide as "Molto Mario" from his appearances on television's Food Network and as chef of New York's much-loved Pó restaurant, has elevated these simple principles to fine art, creating innovative new fare that pays tribute to traditional Italian home cooking in a distinctly modern way. Now, for the first time, more than 200 of his irresistible recipes for fresh pastas, sprightly salads, grilled dishes, savory ragus, and many others are gathered in "Simple Italian Food," a celebration of the flavors and spirit of Italy. Mario draws inspiration for his distinctive dishes from the two "villages" that have left their stamps on his cuisine: Borgo Capanne, the tiny hillside village in Northern Italy where he lived and cooked for several years, and New York's Greenwich Village, where he has ready access to bountiful produce and outstanding artisan-made products; his full-flavored, smartly presented fare combines the best of both worlds. Chapters covering antipasti, pasta and risotto, fish, meat and poultry, contorni (side dishes), and cheese and sweets offer classic dishes such as Baked Lasagne with Asparagus and Pesto and pork loin cooked in caramelized onions and milk alongside Batali's own enticing improvisations -- Penne with Spicy Goat Cheese and Hazelnut Pesto or Tuna Carpaccio with Cucumbers, Sweet Potatoes, and Saffron Vinaigrette. And because his recipes succeed on the strength of their ingredients rather than on virtuoso techniques, home cooks can easily duplicate the clear, clean flavors and livelypresentations that are Mario's signature. Thirty-two pages of color photographs showcase Chef Batali's colorful and approachable recipes."

Call number: TX723 .B327

Supernanny: How to Get the Best from Your Children - "Jo Frost, a.k.a. SuperNanny, is the answer to every stressed-out parent's dreams. In Abc's upcoming primetime tv series by the same name, Jo works miracles on problem children by dispensing hard-won wisdom and reassuring us that parents really do know best. The SuperNanny method gives parents the know-how to tackle problem areas such as mealtime, bath time, bedtime, bedwetting, homework, sibling rivalry, aggressive behavior, or a child who just won't do what he or she is told to do. Divided into action-oriented problem and solution sections, SuperNanny will show parents how to restore harmony and authority in the home using the SuperNanny's ten basic rules."

Call number: HQ769 .F76 2005

The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society - "Has the cell phone forever changed the way people communicate? The mobile phone is used for "real time" coordination while on the run, adolescents use it to manage their freedom, and teens "text" to each other day and night. The mobile phone is more than a simple technical innovation or social fad, more than just an intrusion on polite society. This book, based on world-wide research involving tens of thousands of interviews and contextual observations, looks into the impact of the phone on our daily lives. The mobile phone has fundamentally affected our accessibility, safety and security, coordination of social and business activities, and use of public places.
Based on research conducted in dozens of countries, this insightful and entertaining book examines the once unexpected interaction between humans and cell phones, and between humans, period. The compelling discussion and projections about the future of the telephone should give designers everywhere a more informed practice and process, and provide researchers with new ideas to last years.
*Rich Ling (an American working in Norway) is a prominent researcher, interviewed in the new technology article in the November 9 issue of the New York Times Magazine.
*A particularly "good read," this book will be important to the designers, information designers, social psychologists, and others who will have an impact on the development of the new third generation of mobile telephones.
*Carefully and wittily written by a senior research scientist at Telenor, Norway's largest telecommunications company, and developer of the first mobile telephone system that allowed for international roaming."

Call number: HE9713 .L563 2004

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 - "For nearly the past quarter century, while most Americans were unaware, Afghanistan has been the playing field for intense covert operations by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies -- invisible wars that sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks and that provide its context. From the Soviet invasion in 1979 through the summer of 2001, the CIA, KGB, Pakistan's ISI, and Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Department all operated directly and secretly in Afghanistan. They primed Afghan factions with cash and weapons, secretly trained guerrilla forces, funded propaganda, and manipulated politics. In the midst of these struggles bin Laden conceived and then built his global organization. Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll tells the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan, including its covert program against Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989, and examines the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of bin Laden, and the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents to capture or kill bin Laden in Afghanistan after 1998. Based on extensive firsthand accounts, Ghost Wars is the inside story that goes well beyond anything previously published on U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. It chronicles the roles of midlevel CIA officers, their Afghan allies, and top spy masters such as Bill Casey, Saudi Arabia's Prince Turki al-Faisal, and George Tenet. And it describes heated debates within the American government and the often poisonous, mistrustful relations between the CIA and foreign intelligence agencies.

Ghost Wars answers the questions so many have asked since the horrors of September 11: To what extent did America's best intelligence analysts grasp the rising threat of Islamist radicalism? Who tried to stop bin Laden and why did they fail?"

Call number: DS371.2 .C63 2005

Carnegie - "One of the major figures in American history, Andrew Carnegie was a ruthless businessman who ma his fortune in the steel industry and ultimately gave most of it away.

In this compelling biography, Peter Krass reconstructs the complicated life of this titan who came to power in America’ s Gilded Age, exploring the contradictions in the man who rose from lowly bobbin boy to build the largest and most profitable steel company in the world. Krass examines how Carnegie became one of the greatest philanthropists ever known– and earned a notorious reputation that history has yet to fully reconcile with his remarkable accomplishments."

Call number: CT275.C3 K737 2003

A Classroom of One: How Online Learning Is Changing Our Schools and Colleges - "This is Gene Maeroff's "report from the front" on the short history and status of online learning in the United States and around the world. Maeroff is a reporter who takes you to the schools from Penn State's World Campus to the Florida Virtual School to the newly emerging online learning initiatives in Afghanistan. His journey ultimately provides a snapshot of the way in which technology is changing the minds of people with regard to the nature of higher education. He looks at the method of electronic delivery, the quality of the information being delivered and quality of interaction it engenders. He looks at the way learners are adapting to this new technology and how much responsibility is put on the student's shoulders. Finally, and maybe tellingly, he looks at the business of online learning."

Call number: LC5803.C65 M34 2004

The Anxiety Cure for Kids: A Guide for Parents - " A comforting, practical guide to helping your child deal with anxiety

Fear, worry, stomach pains, self-doubt– – these are all classic symptoms of anxiety in children and teenagers. Anxiety affects both boys and girls, regardless of age, size, intelligence, or family specifics. And the only way your family can be free of anxiety is to confront it every time it appears. This book will show you how.

The bestselling authors of The Anxiety Cure present a reassuring guide to help adults and children understand the way anxiety works. Using characters such as the Dragon and the Wizard, The Anxiety Cure for Kids explains how to overcome the negative impacts of anxiety and turn anxiety into a positive opportunity for the whole family. It outlines specific action steps to regain full control of your anxious child’ s life. You’ ll learn how to communicate effectively with your child, help him or her confront fear, and boost your child’ s feelings of accomplishment and self-esteem. The book also includes helpful advice for anyone who works with anxious children, such as teachers, coaches, therapists, and school nurses. The plentiful exercises and tips reveal how to:

* Recognize the symptoms of anxiety in your child
* Evaluate your child’ s need for medication and/or therapy
* Utilize a journal to gain a clear perspective
* Assess the role of your family in anxiety disorders
* Set goals for the future– – including what to do if anxiety returns

Overcoming anxiety in children takes time and persistence– – but it can be done. By making changes little by little, your child can get well and stay well. The lessons in The Anxiety Cure for Kids have helped many children break free from anxiety and, with your family’ s help, your child will too."

Call number: RJ506.A58 S66 2003

Beyond the Influence: Understanding and Defeating Alcoholism - " ALCOHOLISM IS A DISEASE. IT'S TIME WE STARTED TREATING IT LIKE ONE. Science has offered undisputed proof that alcoholism is a disease rather than a weakness of character, yet millions of alcoholics continue to suffer due to inappropriate treatment. Now the co-author of the modern classic Under the Influence has teamed up with prominent alcoholism policy and treatment experts to examine the reasons why alcoholism continues to plague our nation in epidemic proportions.

Based on the latest scientific research, Beyond the Influence clearly explains the neurological nature of the disease and reveals why some people drink addictively while others do not. Beyond the Influence also spells out exactly what needs to be done to treat alcoholism, including:
-- A step-by-step guide to intervention
-- The crucial components of an effective treatment program
-- The most successful types of psychological counseling
-- The spiritual elements essential for recovery
-- Methods for preventing relapses
-- Nontraditional treatments, including diet, exercise, and acupuncture
-- Ways to dispel the liquor-industry myth that alcohol is a benign drug that causes addiction only in those who "abuse" it

Provocative and eye-opening, compelling and compassionate, Beyond the Influence is not only a message of hope for alcoholics -- it is a blueprint for saving lives."

Call number: HV5035 .K53 2000

Rabbit at Rest - "A haunting novel that completes Updike's extraordinary tetralogy chronicling four decades of life in America. In the final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild while exploring the bleak terrain of late middle age and looking for reasons to live."

Call number: PS3571.P4 R23 1996

The Perricone Prescription: A Physician's 28-Day Program for Total Body and Face Rejuvenation - " We generally believe that lines and wrinkles are an unavoidable part of the aging process. According to Nicholas Perricone, M.D., they are actually due to "inflammation" caused by poor nutrition, pollution, sunlight, irritating skin care treatments, and stress. In fact, this type of inflammation is more than just a beauty problem. This inflammation will damage the cells and organs in the body and also increases the likelihood of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and arthritis.

The good news is the "Perricone Prescription Program can prevent and even reverse these problems. The program will not only produce visible improvement in the skin, it will improve your body's overall health and appearance. Dr. Perricone has developed his own patented skin care products and recommends other products he believes will help to improve skin tone. By following the Perricone Program of diet, topical creams, vitamins, and exercise, you can dramatically reduce lines and wrinkles and achieve a younger look within three days. You will look and feel better than you ever thought possible. Good health and beautiful skin -- an unbeatable combination."

Call number: RA778 .P37 2002

What to Do When Someone You Love Is Depressed: A Practical, Compassionate, and Helpful Guide for Caregivers - "What to Do When Someone You Love is Depressed explains in full and compassionate detail the essential role of the caregiver, or "strengthened ally, " and how important you can be in guiding a loved one through depression. It also teaches you the warning signs of serious illness, how to distinguish between a real depression and a normal case of the blues, how to handle seasonal affective disorder or postpartum depression, how to comfort a depressed person, how to maintain intimacy and communication, how to deal with the mental-health community, the most successful forms of treatment, specific things to say and do that will help, when depression can be dangerous, and what to do if someone you love threatens suicide."

Call number: RC537 .G62 1998

Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Second Edition - "In this classic text, the first full-scale application of cognitive science to politics, George Lakoff analyzes the unconscious and rhetorical worldviews of liberals and conservatives, discovering radically different but remarkably consistent conceptions of morality on both the left and right. For this new edition, Lakoff adds a preface and an afterword extending his observations to major ideological conflicts since the book's original publication, from the impeachment of Bill Clinton to the 2000 presidential election and its aftermath."

Call number: HN90.M6 L34 2002

The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of an American Icon (with CD) - "Lenny Bruce had the power to provoke laughter and delight from the repressed society of the early 1960s. But he also infuriated authorities; his blunt honesty caused him to be arrested and tried for obscenity in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. These trials made history as a challenge to the First Amendment. This ground-breaking biography, told through text and an accompanying audio CD, allows readers to listen to, laugh with and understand the man whose words had the power to provoke laughter and debate -- as well as shock, outrage and arrests. The one-hour audio CD brings Lenny Bruce's voice to you, including his notorious routines and excerpts from the never-before-released secret tapes of his New York obscenity trial. The Trials of Lenny Bruce is the authoritative work on his career and free-speech battles. It paints a vivid, shocking, hilarious portrait of a man too honest for his time."

Call number: KF224.B78 C65 2002

Call number: KF224.B78 C65 2002 CD (shelved with audiobooks)

Priests: A Calling in Crisis - "For several years now, the Roman Catholic Church and the institution of the priesthood itself have been at the center of a firestorm of controversy. While many of the criticisms lodged against the recent actions of the Church--and a small number of its priests--are justified, the majority of these criticisms are not. Hyperbolic and misleading coverage of recent scandals has created a public image of American priests that bears little relation to reality, and Andrew Greeley's Priests skewers this image with a systematic inside look at American priests today.
No stranger to controversy himself, Greeley here challenges those analysts and the media who parrot them in placing the blame for recent Church scandals on the mandate of celibacy or a clerical culture that supports homosexuality. Drawing upon reliable national survey samples of priests, Greeley demolishes current stereotypes about the percentage of homosexual priests, the level of personal and professional happiness among priests, the role of celibacy in their lives, and many other issues. His findings are more than surprising: they reveal, among other things, that priests report higher levels of personal and professional satisfaction than doctors, lawyers, or faculty members; that they would overwhelmingly choose to become priests again; and that younger priests are far more conservative than their older brethren.
While the picture Greeley paints should radically reorient the public perception of priests, he does not hesitate to criticize the Church's significant shortcomings. Most priests, for example, do not think the sexual abuse problems are serious, and they do not think that poor preaching or liturgy is a problem, though the laity give them very low marks on their ministerial skills. Priests do not listen to the laity, bishops do not listen to priests, and the Vatican does not listen to any of them. With Greeley's statistical evidence and provocative recommendations for change--including a national "Priest Corps" that would offer young men a limited term of service in the Church--"Priests offers a new vision for American Catholics, one based on real problems and solutions rather than on images of a depraved, immature, and frustrated priesthood."

Call number: BX1912.9 .G34 2004

Napoleon Dynamite - "Jared Hess makes an unforgettable directorial debut with NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, a hilarious, tender, and original portrait of a truly eccentric character. Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) is a high-school outcast in every sense of the word. More interested in playing tetherball by himself and drawing pictures of his favorite animal, the "liger" (a combination of a lion and a tiger), Napoleon is ignored by everyone in his tiny hometown of Preston, Idaho. At home, things aren't much better. His uber-nerd older brother Kip (Aaron Ruell) and ultra-vain Uncle Rico (Jon Gries) are too busy with their own obsessions to give Napoleon the time of day. It isn't until a new student, Pedro (Efren Ramirez), arrives that Napoleon finds friendship and performs an act of brave defiance that makes him a true hero. Written by Hess and his wife Jerusha, NAPOLEON DYNAMITE brilliantly captures the awkwardness of high school without succumbing to condescension. Most of this can be attributed to Heder, who steps into Napoleon's moon boots with a jaw-dropping flawlessness. The rest of the cast is just as natural, underplaying their roles and letting the comedy unfold without forcing any of the jokes. Add a hilarious soundtrack of 1980s hits and you have an instant classic, a crowd-pleasing riot that has an undeniably universal appeal."

Call number: PN1997 Napol DVD

An Affair to Remember - "In this legendary tearjerker, the world's most eligible bachelor (Cary Grant) is set to marry an heiress. But unfortunately for his bride-to-be, while he's traveling alone on a luxury liner he meets Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) and realizes he's engaged to the wrong woman--and she's engaged to the wrong man. They finally agree to spend six months apart; if they still love each other at the end of that time, they will reunite at the top of the Empire State Building. But the path of true love does not always run smooth, and tragedy threatens to tear the couple apart. Leo McCarey directed both the original (LOVE AFFAIR) and this remake, and viewers often amiably battle over which film is the more touching. This much-loved film features the Academy Award-nominated title song and a splendid supporting cast."

Call number: PN1997 Affair DVD

Shakespeare in Love - "In this well-conceived Elizabethan comedy, writers Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman ask the question: Who was William Shakespeare's muse? The answer: Viola de Lesseps, a young noblewoman who dreams of acting on a man's stage. The screenwriters deliver a cleverly crafted scenario which beautifully illustrates both the early aspirations of the playwright, and a glimpse into the culture of Elizabethan theater. Colorful characters, like the Globe theater owner Henslow (played by Geoffrey Rush), the lead player in the troupe (Ben Affleck), and the Queen herself (Judi Dench), give the cast charm, wit, and feasibility. The young playwright who at the start of the film is experiencing writer's block bursts forth with a lyrical text inspired by the lovely and passionate Viola. Ultimately this film is about the making of a great play, but most importantly it is about the power of words."

Call number: PN1997 Shakes DVD

Sideways - "A divorced school teacher, and failed author, joins up with his buddy who is about to get married and head to wine country for a week of male bonding and wine tasting. What starts out as a whimsical trip to mark the coming milestone in his friend's life quickly dissolves into philosophical discussions and poignant debate. By the end of the week, neither man is convinced that they are on the right track."

Call number: PN1997 Sideways DVD

Saving Private Ryan (D-Day 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition) - "Seen through the eyes of a squad of American soldiers, the story begins with World War II's historic Omaha Beach D-Day invasion, then moves beyond the beach as the men embark on a dangerous special mission. Captain John Miller (Hanks) must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Face with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer -- the strength to triumph over an